Friday, August 3, 2012

Visit to Disket Palace (New Gompa)- Truly World Class

 Visit to  Disket Palace (New Gompa)- Truly World Class  

From Real Siachen lodge, the ride to Disket Palace (New Gompa) is steep as well as secure. It took almost an hour to reach the Maitri Buddha statue.

According to Shastry, who graduated from Sanskrit University, Varanasi and is stationed in Disket, Maitiri Buddha also known as  Future Buddha has a height of 105 ft. The construction began in July 2005 and completed in 2010. Disket monastery purchased eight kg of gold from Japan and from head to waist it is coated with gold . The construction cost is believed to be Rs 3 cr (aprx.).
On the back side of the statue as one ascends stairs to get inside the temple on the left side is founder of yellow sect  (geapa) Sunkhapa Mayern.  In the middle is Lord Buddha and on the right is Founder of Dupa Nama

The paper pasted on the door has following inputs.

The feeder silk route and its impact on Disket Palace (New Gompa)

With the threat of brigands who used to prey on traders passing through the silk route in the valley more often than not strayed to rob villagers. The Disket king & his courtiers were not insulated to such threats, they always remained guarded. The two wooden gates which enclosed the palace and the royal houses were manned to the hilt especially. Outer gate which is now copmpletely removed has still a flat stone etched out on a chess board. Given a mouth this stone would let you relish the story of Mongol chieftain who dared to come to the temple and later ended up in his head and hand being chopped by the protector. Leaving nothing to chance as a huge watch tower has been erected and frequented by sentinels. Another side has a narrow gorge from which in the first place hardly anyone can climb up to the palace. Villagers which constituted like groomers. Soldiers, farmers, shepherds were fenced off on to the same craggy hill . The community was tightly knit in order to grapple with invariable threats.

After reading the inputs i told the officer that inputs need to be tied a bit. Still the officer was kind enough to hand out information and i stepped out.



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